Sentences with phrase «powerful lobbying group for»

Silver told AQE members that he «respectfully» disagreed with Cuomo's claim in the State of the State last week that New York's public school students lack a lobbyist, adding: «The most powerful lobbying group for our students is their parents.»

The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful lobby group for gun rights, said Thursday that it would support an effort to restrict bump stocks — an unusual move for a group that has long pushed back on efforts to impose new firearms regulations.

Not exact matches

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

Some researchers have blamed the National Rifle Association, the firearms industry's powerful lobbying group, for blocking the government's ability to study guns and gun crimes.

«But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, «I agree with everything you said,»» says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students have repeatedly called out Rubio for taking money from the powerful gun lobby group.

Norquist was the subject of a «60 Minutes» profile, which portrayed him and his Americans for Tax Reform group as a powerful anti-tax lobby that has an unusual hold over the Republican Party.

And REBNY is not the only powerful real estate lobbying group stockpiling cash for the upcoming election.

For almost 30 years, Polak has nurtured the Conservative Friends of Israel and developed the organisation, of which he is honorary president, into one of the most powerful and influential lobbying groups in the history of the Tory Party.

The CFE, which had begun as a modest public - interest group in 1993 by Robert Jackson, then president of one of the city's 32 community school boards, and Michael Rebell, the attorney for the same school board, had grown into an impressively powerful education lobbying organization.

For well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political enFor well over a quarter century, the NEA and the AFT have been the most powerful groups in the politics of education — with more than four million members, formidable sums of money for campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political enfor campaign contributions and lobbying, well - educated activists manning the electoral trenches, and organizations that blanket the nation, allowing them to coordinate all these resources toward political ends.

For REDD +, the authors highlight: powerful individuals or lobby groups influencing the design of national REDD + frameworks; petty corruption, political corruption and grand corruption in the implementation phase resulting in fraudulent documentation and disregarding breaches of REDD + laws; and corruption affecting the distribution of REDD + revenues.

AARP operates as a non-profit advocate for its members and as one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the United States.

As one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the U.S., the group works to ensure dignity and respect for senior citizens across the country.

Realtors are the second most powerful lobby group in the United States and have been successful passing laws that make this form of representation legal ONLY for them.